Unfortunately, Cooler Master didn’t win in our today’s test session. Moreover, with the disabled TEC unit V10 couldn’t outperform its younger brother – V8 cooler. As you can see, Peltier module allows Cooler Master V10 to improve CPU cooling by 4-6°C under maximum workload, which doesn’t justify the use of a TEC unit, in my opinion. According to the readings from Zalman ZM-MFC2, TEC consumes about 76 W of power. Moreover, when the CPU utilization is minimal the module continues to work at its full potential (as you can see from the CPU temperature in idle mode), so I couldn’t quite understand why they needed a thermal diode in the cooler base at all.